Patrick White Letters

Marr, David.(Editor)

ISBN 10: 0224035169 / ISBN 13: 9780224035163

Published by Random House, Sydney, 1994

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677 pages. Illustrated.

Seller Inventory # 8508

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patrick White Letters
• Publisher: Random House, Sydney
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224035169
• ISBN 13: 9780224035163
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Autobiographies/Biographies of Australian Authors

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Synopsis

Patrick White spent his life writing letters. He wanted them all burnt, but thousands survive to reveal him as one of the greatest letter-writers of his time. Patrick Letters is an unexpected and final volume of wonderful prose by Patrick White. Only a few scraps of his letters have been published before. Here his 70-year correspondence sees the light of day for the first time. From the aftermath of the First World War until his death in 1990, letters poured from Patrick White's they are shrewd, funny, hauntingly beautiful, dramatic, pig-headed, camp and above all relaxed. He wrote novels to sway a hostile world, but letters were for Patrick White was an old man before he wrote fiction as free and open as the best of his letters.